15-7-2
Section 15-7-2 Examination of complainant and witnesses; taking of depositions. (a) Upon a
complaint being made to a judge or magistrate that an offense has, in the opinion of the complainant,
been committed, the judge or magistrate must examine the complainant and such witnesses as
he may propose on oath, take their depositions in writing and cause them to be subscribed
by the person making them. (b) The depositions must set forth the facts stated by the complainant
and his witnesses tending to establish the commission of the offense and the guilt of the
defendant. (Code 1852, §§429, 430; Code 1867, §3978, 3979; Code 1876, §§4648, 4649; Code
1886, §§4256, 4257; Code 1896, §§5205, 5206; Code 1907, §§7585, 7586; Code 1923, §§5218,
5219; Code 1940, T. 15, §§120, 121.)...
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15-5-4
Section 15-5-4 Examination of complainant and witnesses; contents of depositions. Before issuing
a search warrant, a judge, or magistrate authorized by law to issue search warrants, must
examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce, take their depositions in
writing and cause them to be subscribed by the persons making them. Such depositions must
set forth facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for
believing that they exist. (Code 1852, §§828, 829; Code 1867, §§4379, 4380; Code 1876,
§§4008, 4009; Code 1886, §4730; Code 1896, §5487; Code 1907, §7760; Code 1923, §5474;
Code 1940, T. 15, §103.)...
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28-4-255
Section 28-4-255 Search warrant for seizure of prohibited liquors and beverages, etc., generally
- Issuance - Examination of and taking of depositions from complainant and witnesses; contents
of depositions. The judge of the district court, before issuing a warrant, must examine the
complainant on oath and any other witnesses he may produce, take their depositions in writing
and cause the same to be subscribed by the person or persons making them. The depositions
must set forth facts and circumstances tending to establish the ground or grounds of the application
or probable cause for believing that a ground exists authorizing a search warrant to issue.
(Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4745; Code 1940, T. 29, §214.)...

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15-6-20
Section 15-6-20 Examination of complainant and witnesses; form of affidavit. (a) Whenever complaint
is made to a judge of a circuit, district or municipal court that any person has threatened
or is about to commit an offense on the person or property of another, such judge must examine
the complainant and any witness he may produce on oath, reduce such examination to writing
and cause it to be subscribed by the party so examined. (b) The affidavit may be after the
following form: "State of Alabama, ___ County. Before me, ___,a (circuit, district or
municipal) judge (setting out his name and office) in and for said county and state, personally
appeared A. B., who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that C. D. has threatened to assault
and beat him (or is about) to ___ (here set forth the particular offense threatened or about
to be committed) on the person or property of affiant (or E. F., a third person, as the case
may be.) (Signed) A. B. Sworn to and subscribed...
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15-11-6
Section 15-11-6 Examination of complainant and witnesses. The court before whom any person
is brought charged with a public offense must examine the complainant and the witnesses for
the prosecution on oath, as soon as may be, in the presence of the defendant, and, after the
testimony for the prosecution is heard, the witnesses for the defendant must be sworn and
examined. (Code 1852, §458; Code 1867, §4007; Code 1876, §4677; Code 1886, §4284; Code
1896, §5233; Code 1907, §7598; Code 1923, §5231; Code 1940, T. 15, §133.)...
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15-7-21
Section 15-7-21 Discharge of defendant - By judge or magistrate; certification and delivery
of warrant with undertaking. (a) When the offense described in the warrant is a misdemeanor
and it is not executed by the sheriff or his deputy, at the defendant's request, he may be
brought before a judge, or a magistrate when authorized by law to grant bail, of the county
in which the warrant was executed; and such judge or magistrate may, without examination,
discharge such defendant, upon sufficient bail for his appearance before the court having
cognizance of the offense. (b) The judge or magistrate admitting a defendant to bail under
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section must certify the same upon the warrant and
deliver such warrant, with the undertaking, to the officer who executed the warrant, who must
cause the same to be delivered without unnecessary delay to the clerk of the court in which
the defendant is bound by his undertaking to appear. (Code 1852, §§441, 443; Code...
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15-5-16
Section 15-5-16 Restoration of taken property to defendant; property to be forwarded to court
if not restored. (a) If it appears that the property taken is not the same as that described
in a search warrant or that there is no probable cause for believing the existence of the
ground on which the warrant issued, the judge or the magistrate must direct it to be restored
to the person from whom it was taken. (b) If the property is not directed to be restored under
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the judge or the magistrate shall annex
together the search warrant, the return and the depositions and return them to the court having
power to inquire into the offense in respect to which the search warrant was issued. (Code
1852, §§841, 842; Code 1867, §§4392, 4393; Code 1876, §§4021, 4022; Code 1886, §§4742,
4743; Code 1896, §§5499, 5500; Code 1907, §§7772, 7773; Code 1923, §§5486, 5487; Code
1940, T. 15, §§115, 116.)...
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17-16-55
Section 17-16-55 Contest of election of judge of circuit or district court - Testimony; heard
without jury. The testimony on the contest must be taken by deposition as in civil cases at
common law, but no affidavit, other than that of the materiality of the testimony of the witnesses
proposed to be examined, shall be required. Either party may, on giving five days' notice,
require the examination before the commissioner to be oral and that the witnesses be examined
separate and apart from each other. The party against whom the depositions are to be taken
must have at least five days' notice of the time and place of taking such depositions and
of the name and residence of the commissioner or commissioners proposed. The contest must
be heard and determined by the court without the intervention of a jury. (Code 1896, §1694;
Code 1907, §468; Code 1923, §558; Code 1940, T. 17, §244; §17-15-28; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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15-11-12
Section 15-11-12 Requiring witnesses to enter undertaking; form of undertaking. (a) The court
may require the witnesses for the prosecution to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of
$100.00 each, to appear and testify at the court having cognizance of the offense and, if
requested by the defendant, may require his witnesses to enter into such undertaking. (b)
The undertaking of the witnesses for the prosecution or defense may be in substance as follows:
"The State of Alabama, ) We, A.B., C.D., and E.F., witnesses against (or for, as the
case may be), G.H., ___ County, ) charged with a public offense, do each agree to appear at
the district court of _____ County, to give evidence against (or for, as the case may be)
him and, failing to do so, to pay to the State of Alabama (or to the said G. H., if the undertaking
is for the defendant's witnesses) $100.00. Dated this _____ day of _____, 20__. (Signed) A.B.
C.D. E.F. Taken by L. M., Judge, District Court." (c) Whenever the court...
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15-6-22
Section 15-6-22 Hearing; discharge of defendant; continuation of hearing. When a person complained
of is brought before the circuit, district or municipal court judge, he and his witnesses
must be heard in his defense; and, if on hearing the witnesses on both sides it appears that
there is no just reason to fear the commission of the offense, the defendant must be discharged.
If the hearing is continued, the judge shall require the defendant to give bail for his appearance,
and, failing to furnish the bail, the defendant must be committed to jail. (Code 1852, §412;
Code 1867, §3961; Code 1876, §4030; Code 1886, §4684; Code 1896, §5165; Code 1907, §7525;
Code 1923, §5143; Code 1940, T. 15, §406.)...
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